About the Author

Steven Overman works on the frontline of business and culture transformation, helping teams deliver new ideas that generate billions of dollars of economic value while positively changing the lives of people everywhere.

He was one of the earliest members of the group that created and spread the message of the Digital Revolution at Wired magazine, even collaborating on the invention of the ad banner for the world’s first commercial website Hotwired (an early offshoot of Wired.) He helped create the Academy Award-winning movie Philadelphia, which transformed the global conversation about HIV/AIDS. He led the international launch of the world’s first smartphone, the blockbuster Nokia N95, and created innovative marketing for a whole new category of affordable mobile technology that connected a billion new consumers to the internet, from India to Indonesia to Sub-Saharan Africa.

As a strategy and innovation consultant for startups as well as Fortune 100 companies across a range of industry sectors, and during his tenure as Vice President of Global Brand and Marketing Creation for Nokia Corporation, Steven has collaborated with a broad range of leaders from the C-suite to the product and software design studio, from the R&D lab to the patent department. He has pored over state-of-the-art market research and consumer insight from nearly every corner of the globe, collaborated with the world’s leading creative studios and advertising agencies, developed future scenarios for the shipping and logistics industry, imagined and evangelized concepts for sustainable hospitality and sustainability infrastructure for international brands, co-created award-winning youth marketing in countries and cultures around the world, and mentored young entrepreneurs. A frequent public speaker, guest academic lecturer, and business leadership advisor, Steven is based in London.